please help me! - i cant figure this out
2007-09-20 02:08:01 · 6 answers · asked by Max 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
To be exact it's complete metamorphosis because during its life cycle it changes its appearance completely (from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly)
2007-09-20 02:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by biancitis16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metamorphosis...to correct someone else's answer, a monarch's pupal stage is not a cocoon, but is a "chrysalis". The monarch cycle starts as:
the female butterfly lays an EGG on a milkweed leaf,
which hatches into a CATERPILLAR (larval stage),
which hangs upside down in the shape of a "J" and sheds it's skin to become a CHRYSALIS (pupal stage),
and then emerges as an ADULT MONARCH BUTTERFLY (which is classified as an insect, so if you want to keep seeing monarch butterflies, go easy on the chemicals and plant lots of milkweed!).
2007-09-22 22:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by Julie H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metamorphosis
2007-09-20 09:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Complete metomorphosis, because it changes completely over it's lifespan. this proccess also takes place in other animals, like frogs. Incomplete metomorphosis is when a creature go's through several stages of life (larva, nymph, etc.) but doesnt really change all that much.
2007-09-20 09:58:00 · answer #4 · answered by Smiler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metamorphosis, my dear.
2007-09-20 09:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it has to want to change. ;-)
2007-09-20 09:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋